Paramore's 'The Only Exception' Totally Sounds Like The Monkees' 'As We Go Along'
All this talk

about

songs sounding like other songs

reminds me that there's this thing with Paramore's "The Only Exception": It sounds a bit like The Monkees' "As We Go Along."

I can't take credit for noticing, though — it was Maura Johnston, formerly of the late, lamented Idolator, who says this:

Paramore had to have this song in the back of their collective mind while working on “The Only Exception,” right? I mean, there are SO MANY SIMILARITIES.

Let's go to the evidence, shall we?

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